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Page viii
... never attempted to give any account of the half - yearly versatility of these general Currents , so well known in the Indian Ocean ; nay , they We must not pretend , then , with our instruments of Philosophy , to arrive at the ...
... never attempted to give any account of the half - yearly versatility of these general Currents , so well known in the Indian Ocean ; nay , they We must not pretend , then , with our instruments of Philosophy , to arrive at the ...
Page xix
... ; and peace is Man's choicest possession , which is never so pure , and so profound , as in the perception and the feeling of that very glory which governs C 2 the the Universe . My highest ambition is the de- light ADVERTISEMENT . A xix.
... ; and peace is Man's choicest possession , which is never so pure , and so profound , as in the perception and the feeling of that very glory which governs C 2 the the Universe . My highest ambition is the de- light ADVERTISEMENT . A xix.
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... never can contravene the laws of Nature ; that it is the interest of masters to have their domestics marry , because they pay , let them do their best , the expense of the , smug- gled libertinism of servants , much more excessive , * I ...
... never can contravene the laws of Nature ; that it is the interest of masters to have their domestics marry , because they pay , let them do their best , the expense of the , smug- gled libertinism of servants , much more excessive , * I ...
Page xli
... never transcend their bounds , and always pro- ceed in one direction , from East to West : but here is the solution . When this Current of Brasil runs to the South in our Winter , it is the general counter - current of the South Pole ...
... never transcend their bounds , and always pro- ceed in one direction , from East to West : but here is the solution . When this Current of Brasil runs to the South in our Winter , it is the general counter - current of the South Pole ...
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... never fail to arrive at the accustomed season on other shores , conveyed by the same Currents , because then they are blind . " When " the mackarel come to the coasts of Canada , " says Denis , formerly Governor of that country , " they ...
... never fail to arrive at the accustomed season on other shores , conveyed by the same Currents , because then they are blind . " When " the mackarel come to the coasts of Canada , " says Denis , formerly Governor of that country , " they ...
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Page 176 - When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 171 - God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Page 177 - Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth ? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Page 177 - Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; and caused the day-spring to know his place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? It is turned as clay to the seal ; and they stand as a garment.
Page 53 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 177 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death ? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth ? declare if thou knowest it all.
Page 228 - ... fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.
Page 176 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 56 - ... rapid wing, collects a similar tribute from the refuse of the grove ; and the frugal bee turns to account even the small dust on the flower, There is no corner of the earth where the whole vegetable crop may not be reaped. Those plants which are rejected by one are a delicacy to another, and, even among the finny tribes, contribute to their fatness. The hog devours the horse-tail and henbane ; the goat, the thistle, and . the hemlock. All return in the evening to the habitation of man, with murmurs,...
Page 228 - Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen, know him that is : neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster...